[Vision2020] [Bulk] Important Bill Maher Message

[Tom Hansen]

Excellent post, Paul.
 
The reactionary fear of which Paul discusses was reflected very much in the final question posed at yesterday's NSA Candidate's Forum . . .
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvkg42Aw9c8
 
Tom Hansen



> Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:21:01 -0700> From: godshatter at yahoo.com> To: chasuk at gmail.com> CC: vision2020 at moscow.com> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] [Bulk] Important Bill Maher Message> > I meant to reply to this earlier. This is a very important point. For > those that haven't watched it or can't watch it, Bill Maher shows some > of the devastation from the train wreck at Chatsworth and of Hurricane > Ike. He then makes the point that if this was the result of a terrorist > attack, we would have freaked as a country (my words).> > This is very true, and the point has been made here before. This caused > me to think about something I've wanted to mention here before, but > couldn't get the words together for it. Our reaction to 9/11 as a > country was in a way schizophrenic. We reacted with extreme fear, and > we reacted with extreme "macho"-ness. Those two reactions seem > contradictory to me, but I think the one comes from the other. Being > "macho" is often done because of fear, or as a reaction to a fearful > situation.> > I would have liked us to have been truly macho in our response to 9/11. > We could have taken the attitude of "You want a piece of me? Come and > get it!" Instead of taking away liquids, lighters and nail clippers, we > could have given every person that boards a plane a big Rambo knife. > Just try to hijack a plane after 9/11 when everyone on board has a big > knife - even if you happen to have one yourself.> > I'm kidding about giving knives out on planes, but you get the idea.> > So, instead of being the person that gets shoved by someone who shoves > back and stands their ground, we were the bully that gets hit, runs off > crying, and then pounds on some little kid we don't happen to like when > the opportunity presents itself. We justify it to ourselves because he > resembled the guy that shoved us, and we got to steal his lunch money.> > Thinking that the name Barack Hussein Obama is an insulting name is a > symptom of that fearful pretend macho-ness that has swept us down the > path of shamefulness on the world stage. It's time to put our foot back > on the path we were originally on, don't you think?> > Paul> > Chasuk wrote:> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmCC_jasq0E> >> > =======================================================> > List services made available by First Step Internet, > > serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. > > http://www.fsr.net > > mailto:Vision2020 at moscow.com> > =======================================================> >> > > > > =======================================================> List services made available by First Step Internet, > serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. > http://www.fsr.net > mailto:Vision2020 at moscow.com> =======================================================
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